Another great Cape Cod Times article "Infection Attacking Striped Bass" written by Doug Fraser, August 15, 2012. Thanks to Ron Domurat for passing this along to the club.

Warming water temperatures might be causing an increase in the number of striped bass that have lesions from a viral or bacterial infection, according to the state Division of Marine Fisheries.

While the number of infected fish is estimated at less than 5 percent of those landed along the entire Massachusetts coastline, the infection rate is higher in fish caught in the Cape Cod Canal and in Buzzards Bay, according to a state advisory issued last month.